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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[BENNETT 
1839. The | Natural History | of | South Devon | Five maps, Eighty 
engravings, and nine lithographs. | By J. C. Bellamy, Surgeon 
| One of the Curators to the Devon and Cornwall | Natural 
History Society. | [Two mottoes] | Plymouth : | Printed and 
Published by Jenkin Thomas, | 9, Cornwall-Street. | London : | 
Simpkin, Marshall and Co. Stationers’ Hall Court, mdcccxxxix. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxvi + pp. 2 un. +pp. viii + pp. 455. 
Catalogue of Birds of South Devon at pp. 198-235. There are 
also at pp. 274-428 several chapters and passages on birds. 
On the Food of Birds. (MacGillivray’s Edin. Jour, of Nat. Hist. ii. 
pp. 1-2 [Feb. 1839].) 
Bennett (Edward Turner), 1797-1836 
Bennett was born at Hackney, January 6, 1797, and 
was a .brother of J. J. Bennett, the botanist. He practised 
as a surgeon, but his chief pursuit was always zoology. In 
1822 he actively promoted the establishment of an entomo- 
logical society, which later developed into a zoological club 
in connection with the Linnean Society. This in turn became 
the starting-point of the Zoological Society of London in 
1826, of which Bennett was at first Vice-Secretary, being 
elected Secretary in 1831, an office he held until his death 
on August 21, 1836. 
His best-known works are The Tower Menagerie (8vo, 
1829) and the Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society 
(2 vols. 8 vo, 1830-31), both of which are illustrated by 
William Harvey. He also wrote, in conjunction with G. T. 
Lay, the section on Fishes in the Zoology of Beeehef s Voyage 
(4to, 1839), and was the author of many papers in the zoo- 
logical journals of his day. His claim to a place in the 
present work rests on his posthumous edition (1837) of White’s 
Selborne, a good and well-printed edition afterwards re-edited 
by Mr. J. E. Harting, 1875. For this Bennett visited Selborne 
in 1835, a year before his death, and made a large collection 
of facts which he embodied in the book. 
1837. [Edited by.] White’s Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. 
New edition, with Notes, etc. London : 1837. 
See under White (Gilbert). 
Bennett (F. G.). See Palmer (M.) 
